‘Russian weightlifting not on dope’

The Head of the Russian Weightlifting Federation has scuttled rumors the country’s Olympians have been using dope.

The Russian Olympic weightlifting squad suffered three late injury withdrawals – world champions Oksana Slivenko, Khadzhimurat Akkaev and Dmitry Klokov. All of them could have won a medal in London and their untimely injuries triggered the rumors of doping.